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Dicryora pRruINosA, Brunner (Br. Mon., 201, fig. 58). 
Size large. Brownish-green ; head, pronotum, and the base of 
elytra and femora whitish. Lateral ridges of pronotum rough and 
scabrous. Width of elytra twice the length of pronotum, form 
lanceolate, apex acuminate ; transverse veinlets of marginal area 
very close ; radial branch forked in the middle. Fore cox with 
a small spine. 
Female. 
Length of body ... Scie ue 2 oO. DIM. 
Length of pronotum _... ee Set er dealt 
Length of elytra Bah oe Serial t(D iba 
Width of elytra ... Se ue See oad)! 
Length of hind femora ... an ett eO0 aml 
Length of ovipositor... ae 
Habitat.—New Holland ; Auckland, New Zealand (Brunner ). 
Size and the whitish dust covering it give the species the aspect 
of Stilpnochlora, a Brazilian and West Indian genus of the group 
STEIRODONTIA, otherwise far removed. 
Dictyota ELDERI, spec. nov. 
Size moderate. Pale-green. Head, pronotum (except hind- 
margin and posterior angles of deflexed lobes, which are green), 
all the legs, base of elytra, abdomen, and the under side of the 
thorax creamy or testaceous-white. Disk of pronotum equally 
wide in front and behind, lobes with three furrows, all rough with 
minute pits. Elytra lanceolate, broadest at or slightly beyond 
the middle, apex rounded ; transverse veinlets in marginal area 
moderately crowded, in parts considerably reticulate; ulnar vein 
brown ; radial veins much separated at the apex, the posterior 
terminating in the apex; first radial branch forked beyond the 
middle, and succeeded by two simple ones. Hind femora slender, 
subterete. Hind tibiz almost triangular, spines below small to 
minute. 
Female. 
Length of body aes ae ay oO ange 
Length of pronotum ... we Seay Oe 
Length of elytra a ap see Orman ss’ 
Width of elytra rai aes a2 Fate) (0) 
Length of hind femora ise epi es (ic arg 
Length of hind tibie ... re oer, eealeeg ss 
Length of ovipositor ... ae ae beast 
Habitat.—Mount Squires, Central Western Australia, where 
the only specimen extant was captured by Mr. R. Helms, the 
botanist to the Elder Exploring Expedition, in August,1891. It 
has been named in honour of the generous promoter of the expedi- 
tion—NSir Thomas Elder—at whose sole expense it has been con- 
